The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-11-02
Farm Notes.

A well-known nursery house has what is
claimed to be cross between plum and
peach.
Sods kept moist and warm by the stove
afford good means of testing the vitality
OF garden seeds.
Potatoes are the best crop that can be
grown TO clean foul land when it is not
desirable 10 fallow it.
What sometimes seems like total de-
pravity in the horse. the bull or any other
animal, comes from bad treatment.
Seed-wheat and seed-corn should be
thoroughly dry and kept in dry place.
Seedco that is thoroughly dry seldom
freezes unless exposed TO very severe cold.
The cold, damp westher is more damag-
ing to poultry than the cold, dry days of
winter. Hens do not like to be in the
wind, and a covered scratching place
should be provided tor them.
A cross COW in herd keeps the others
always IN perpetual fear, and in that
manner lessons the milk from the others
in quantity more than may be sufficient
to balance that given by the cross one. A
cross or dOmineering COW should be got
rid of.
All the farm implements should now be
taken apart and well cleaned. Rub kero.
seDe on the iron portions as q protection
against dampuess and rust. Knives should
be sharpeDed, and all such work per-
formed, while other farm work is not ur-
gent.
The cheapest mode of keeping rats out OF
q barn is to use half-inch wire netting,
placing it from two to three feet deep In
the ground all around the edges of the
barn or stable, digging a narrow trench
for the purpose, and then rehlling in the
dirt.
The best way to get rid of lice in the hen
house is to thoroughly satarate every por-
ton with strong boiling soapSuds, first ad-
ding pint OF kerosene to every bucket OF
suds. 1t should be forced into every crack
and crevice, and also on the under side of
the roof, as well as on the walls.
The cost of pound of pork is about 6
cents, while a pound OF chicken costs
about cents; but the prices obtained for
| the chicken are so much greater that the
profit is nearly twice as much as that on
| pork, which may be put down to the fact
that the chicken is also producer of eggs
as well as OF flesh.
1t is quite expensive to put an acre OF
/ ground in onions owing to the high price
| of seed, while the labor of raising an acre
| of them is also arduous and costly; but
should an acre of onions be secured, and
] the crop good, it will pay well, as some
growers have obtained SIS many as 600
bushels per acre.
Young grape vines may be placed in
their proper location now. Cut them back
until only a single cane will be left. Allow
as msDy roots as possible, and mulch
around the vine If the climate be severe ia
winter. A plentiful supply of ground
bone should be placed around the roots of
the vine when planted,
A covering of fine, well rotted manure
placed over the strawberry rows will serve
as a mulch and protect the young plants.
In the spring the soluble matter will be APP
propriated by the growing plants as soon
as the season shall begin to open, thus
causing them to push forward RAPIDLY.
Spring work of manuriDg them will also
be saved.
A good COW should yield $50 pounds OF
butter q yesr, allowing for the time che is
dried off This yield is selco n secured from
each animal in dairy herd, but it Is not
impossible, as such yield has been greatly
exceeded. By using the butter produc-
| ing breeds, and feeding for the highest pos
81 ole production, the profits from the herd
| may be doubled.